I subscribe to WVR - dont use it a whole lot at the moment, but they do have a lot of records you can search for and it is updated frequently.

What the do seem to have (different from other websites like Ancestry) is a whole lot of small searchable databases that you would not find in other websites. More like going into a genealogy library where there are 10's of thousands of books that you can use for research.

Dont know if that helps, but my 2 cents worth.

Regards,